"It's been a long journey, and also a very emotional journey to photograph and to document the daily life of such a small community," Ms Tadros said.

The story behind the confronting images of disadvantage in the popular tourist town has been a four-year process of building relationships between photographer and subject.

Although Ms Tadros's kebab shop is just few hundred metres from Kennedy Hill, she needed to bridge the gulf that separates Broome's poorest from the wider community before she could start to take photos.

"At the beginning [people would say], 'who are you?' And they'd always swear at me and tell me to f-off and stuff," she said.

"I thought, 'I'm just going to go there and a just have a chat and sit down and have a cup of tea and a talk.'"

Over months and years Ms Tadros was able to establish trust with the residents of Kennedy Hill.

"Just being yourself, and being honest, and being respectful, it let me really easily into the story," she said.

Building trust and gaining approval

When a national broadsheet newspaper proposed publishing a selection of the photographs, Ms Tadros's said she delayed publication so that she could ensure her subjects approved and could determine the accompanying captions.

"I said to them, 'If I'm going to do a book, or if I'm going to do a publication, first I'll come back, and I'll show you the photos,'" she said.

"I basically gave the photos back and asked them to say what it was, so it became really powerful."

Ms Tadros said that despite taking hundreds of photos over a number of years, there was only ever one shot from Kennedy Hill that she was not allowed to use.

"There was one photo I took, and I knew at that moment that I could not show that photo," she said.

"And I showed it to the people, and they said, 'Nah'. And I said, 'Yeah, I knew that already'.

"So that was good. But all the other ones, the people said, 'No, that's fine. Just show it to them because this is our life'."